—estate /ɪˈsteɪt/
noun (PROPERTY)
B2 [C] a large area of land in the country that is owned by a family or an organization and is often used for growing crops or raising animals:
» It's a typical country estate with a large house for the owner, farm buildings and estate workers' houses.Thesaurus+: ↑Farms and ranches , ↑Areas of land where crops are grownF0 [C] LEGAL everything that a person owns when they die:
» She left her entire estate to her niece.Thesaurus+: ↑Belongings and possessions• • •
Extra Examples:» The estate for sale includes two miles of river frontage.» What acreage is her estate ?» With the income from the family estate, she's in clover.» The wood lies on the southern extremity of the estate.» She will inherit her father's estate when she reaches her majority.noun [C] UK (ALSO estate car, US station wagon) (CAR)
► F0 a car with a lot of space behind the back seat and an extra door at the back for putting in large objectsThesaurus+: ↑Carsnoun [C] UK (BUILDINGS)
► B2 a group of houses or factories built in a planned way: » a housing estate» an industrial estate (= a group of factories)Thesaurus+: ↑Areas in towns and cities• • •
Extra Examples:» She was brought up in a council estate in Liverpool.» Police are blaming arsonists for the spate of fires in the Greenfields housing estate.» They have a four-bedroom house on a newish estate.» They live on a great concrete warren of a housing estate.» The estate contains 300 new homes, about a third of which are leased to the council.noun [U] OLD USE (STATE)
► F0 a state of being: » the holy estate of marriageThesaurus+: ↑Existing and being- feeler
- feel faint
- feel for sb
- feel free
- feel-good
- feel hard done-by
- feel hard done-to
- feeling
- feelingly
- feelings
- feel it in your bones
- feel like a gooseberry
- feel like a new woman/man
- feel like sth
- feel sb up
- feel sorry for yourself
- feel strange
- feel the cold
- feel the pinch
- feel your age
- feel your way
- fee-paying
- feet
- feign
- feint